Baby Girl Names Outside of the Top 1,000

The top 1,000 baby girl names of 2009 can be found at the SSA website. But what about all the other names that were doled out last year? Those names are also available via the SSA I recently discovered (thanks Kelly!).

Just a few hours ago I posted a list of boy names that didn’t make the top 1,000 last year, but were still given to 100+ babies. Here is the equivalent (and much longer) list of girl names, grouped by the number of babies that received each name:

*Nyasia could have made the top 1,000. In fact, it should have made the top 1,000. It was given to 263 babies, just like the names that ranked 996th-1,000th (Gretchen, Karli, Kloe, Lilyanna and Mireya). But it came in last alphabetically, so in the eyes of the SSA it’s name #1,001. Sad, sad…

I do not want to see the name Cordelia become more popular. I named my daughter Cordelia in December 2009 because it is not a common name and I did not want her to be 1 of 10 Cordelias in her graduating class like I was. Nicole was a big hit mid 80’s apparently. People always say her name is beautiful and other women have even said “If I have a little girl I am going to name her that” and I get angry. For the record I did NOT name her after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character, I named her after the two women in The Happiest Millionaire. A movie form the 60’s I used to watch with my mom. lol